From: Ellen K. 

But you've installed most of that from non-MS sources.   Windows and
Office you would both patch on the MS site, as you would IE and Outlook. If
you go elsewhere for your browser and email, then of course you have to go
back to elsewhere for patches.  Duh.

On 17 Feb 2004 05:27:04 -0500, "Chris Robinson"
 wrote in message
:

>If I pop Windows on a PC and install my standard suite of software
>(office apps, PIM, CD burning, browser, e-mail etc, etc, etc) then I
>have to go to a ton of different websites and manually download and
>install the patches for every single piece of software I have installed.

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